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Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

261 points david927 | 2 comments | 23 Feb 25 23:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.419s | source

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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psviderski ◴[24 Feb 25 12:34 UTC] No.43158798[source]▶
Working on Uncloud[1][2] — think Fly.io but self-hosted. A lightweight Docker clustering tool for running web apps on your own servers (from cloud VMs to bare metal) with no control plane to maintain. Perfect for teams who want cloud-like deployments without Kubernetes complexity. Early days but seeing promising results with eventually consistent state sync, zero-config mesh networking, and automatic HTTPS ingress.

[1]: https://github.com/psviderski/uncloud

[2]: https://uncloud.run

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1. scottydelta ◴[24 Feb 25 13:28 UTC] No.43159319[source]▶
How is it different than using coolify with API?

https://coolify.io, An open-source & self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative.

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2. psviderski ◴[24 Feb 25 22:20 UTC] No.43165606[source]▶
As far as I know, Coolify is great for single-server PaaS or multi-servers that work independently. Uncloud focuses on distributed multi-server HA deployments (which is what is usually preferred for production). It allows you to spread workload replicas across different providers and locations while maintaining unified management. It's closer to Kubernetes and Docker Swarm in terms of providing building blocks to build your PaaS of choice. Unlike Coolify which requires a dedicated server to run the control plane Uncloud has no central component to manage. It's just a network of interconnected machines so there's no single point of failure and no central service that needs updates, backups, etc.